December 20, 2024
I shall now make a further statement in my capacity as the Representative of the United States.
An aggressor cannot undertake an unprovoked invasion of another country and then argue that that country’s self-defense is escalatory. Ukraine has a right to defend itself in the war that Russia has chosen to wage against it. The United States and countries around the world will continue to support Ukraine in that defense.
Just last night, Russia launched seven missiles and 65 drones against Kyiv. A couple of those missiles appear to have struck residential and office buildings, including diplomatic missions, a technical school, a gas pipe; killing one and injuring 11, and leaving 630 residential buildings and multiple medical facilities and schools damaged.
With respect to the comments from the representative from China, one might ask, where is the condemnation for Russia’s attacks of last night? Where are the words telling Russia to end their war?
This war could have, should have ended long ago, without your support to Russia. This is not a smear, it is a fact. China has supplied Russia with the political cover and material it needs to wage this war.
If China is uncomfortable with that fact, China should stop supplying Russia with what it needs to continue the war. Then and only then the United States will stop calling out China for enabling an unprovoked war of aggression that violates the sovereignty and territorial integrity of a UN Member State.